Environmental law: trusteeship of Superfund sites, hazardous waste site counseling and litigation, and Brownfield site qualification.

Superfund Site Management to Control Costs: major role in the Superfund program since its beginnings in the early 1980s including cost effective management of site clean ups with partial contingency arrangements (the more you save, the more we earn), and specialized environmental contracts to shift much of the environmental risk of unknown conditions to contractors, while holding price down through structured competitive bidding.

Mergers and acquisitions: counsel regarding potential risks pertaining to environmental law issues as they pertain to corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Toxic Tort defense: successfully defended a demolition contractor in a major lead inhalation litigation, and successfully defended or settled numerous other toxic tort litigations.

Environmental litigation: defense of environmental claims, including citizens suits, oil spills, toxic tort, trial and appellate court litigation under the various environmental statutes, prosecution and defense of contribution claims, and comments on and challenges to EPA rule makings in federal appellate court.

On January 27, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a petition for certiorari that sought to overturn our defeat of DOJ's arguments in the Seventh Circuit in
Bernstein, et al. v. Bankert, et al. For the front page article in Bloomberg's Toxics Law Reporter,
click here. For the Seventh Circuit's decision,
click here.